Skins

A new set of clutch plates are ordered and will be delivered in about 2 weeks so I attacked the fairing today and fitted the seat and rear fairing along with the right hand side panel. after over 2 hours Sam came in to see how I was getting on . . .

Clutching

I attacked the brake light problem and got it resolved without any major problems. The brake light switch on the front lever was faulty, it looked like it had corroded internally, i swapped it out with another used one I had which workes! The rear brake light switch is activated by the fluid so when I bled the rear brake line and caliper the switch is now working.

Regarding the Clutch problem, I can only recon the issue lies with either the spring plate which houses the ball bearing that the pushrod connects onto or that the plates were stuck together from their 6 year mating?
I drained the gearbox oil and removed the basket to take a look at the plates and they definitely need to be changed . . . the springs are well within the service limit. [should have done this at the rebuild stage]

Toothpaste

... and elbow grease cleaned up the front screen which was badly scuffed all over. the first pic shows the screen with the right hand half "polished" and the left hand side still scuffed. The second image is the finished article. A set of Stainless Steel nuts and bolts replaced the rusted ones to fit it to the fairing.

Refreshed Red

Finding it hard to get this put to bed, its close but there are 2 small things that need to be sorted. [1] both brake switches dont seem to be working. All other electrics apart from the horn are working. [2] the clutch does not seem to be disengaging.

The saddles were in very bad shape, I just couldnt get them cleaned, so I got them recovered instead at a very good budget price,